Re: Prevue Magazine\'s JMS interview, Part 2
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>It's best not to read too much into these statements, anyway.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
That's something every
B5 fan needs to have tattooed on the inside of his or her eyelids.
The
Prevue interview was done while they were still shooting the movie, and I'm sure JMS was concentrating on that, not looking ahead to a possible feature film that would probably only get made soon
if the movie became a seris and
if it became a modest hit for Sci-Fi. Even then writing the thing could easily take a year, given his other commitments, and getting it made could eat up another two.
So we're looking at four or five years down the road if everything goes
right. If it doesn't it is very possible that
B5 will become a property like
The Beverly Hillbillies or
The Addams Family that runs in syndication for decades until some studio exec who watched it as a kid decides it will work on the big screen. Given that (and given the fen track record of reading his every statement as closely as CIA Kremlinologists used to study the pictures from the top of Lenin's tomb every November) he probably was deliberately playing the whole issue of the movie down when talking to
Prevue.
Now, of course, the moderated newsgroup will be filled with "ATTN JMS" threads asking if this means he's given up all hope of doing a
B5 feature film himself.
The guy can't win.
Regards,
Joe
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Joseph DeMartino
Sigh Corps
Pat Tallman Division
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